Question follow-through · 12539
Rescue Services: Voluntary Work
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which minister has overall responsibility for volunteer search and rescue policy across government.
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 23 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 29 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 3 Jul 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which minister has overall responsibility for volunteer search and rescue policy across government.
29 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Jul 2026
Answer published
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport leads on volunteering policy, and the responsible Minister is Stephanie Peacock MP and Minister for Sport, Tourism, Civil Society and Youth. The Cabinet Office owns the Civil Contingencies Act (2004), which prov...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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